There’s also another major difference: Videos inside Reels won’t disappear after 24 hours, as stories normally do, and won’t need to be under a centralised feed either.

This means that youtubers will be able to create multiple, topic-based Reels, and fill them up at will for people to enjoy at any time – putting the focus of Reels on the content’s story rather than the person’s.

YouTube said that the feature will first arrive in beta, but didn’t specify a date, say how long it plans for it to stay in beta, or which creators will get to use Reels first.